• Craft and Criticism

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    Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

    By Literary Hub  April 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Ana Marie Cox on Our New National Nightmare

    By Literary Hub  April 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers

    By Colum McCann  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Is Your Name Your Destiny?

    By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn’t Love Me Back

    By Stephanie Powell Watts  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

    By John Sherman  March 31, 2017
    Criticism

    What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

    By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino  March 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

    By Tobias Carroll  March 30, 2017
    Audiobook

    The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

    By John Freeman Gill  March 29, 2017
    Translation

    The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 29, 2017
    Craft

    Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

    By Julio Cortazar  March 28, 2017
    Profile

    Julia Dahl: Crime Fiction Among the Pious

    By Lisa Levy  March 28, 2017
    History

    How to Write About a Massacre

    By Harriet Scott Chessman  March 28, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Life Advice From Adrienne Rich

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2017
    Q and A

    Greg Iles: In Praise of Larry McMurtry (Postmodernists, Not So Much)

    By Literary Hub  March 27, 2017
    Film

    In Which Jonathan Lethem and Heidi Julavits Talk About Movies

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Instead of Writing, I Watched Trains

    By Owen Laukkanen  March 24, 2017
    Essay

    Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    Op-Ed

    If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA

    By Emily Temple  March 23, 2017
    Events

    Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

    By Jen Michalski  March 23, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

    By Victoria Newton Ford  March 23, 2017
    Q and A

    Deborah Crombie: Middle Earth Over Thomas Hardy, Any Day

    By Literary Hub  March 23, 2017
    Conversations

    Airea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton

    By Peter Mishler  March 22, 2017
    Feature

    How Many Books Will You Read Before You Die?

    By Emily Temple  March 22, 2017
    Craft

    Putting the “I” in Biography

    By John Kaag  March 22, 2017
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